polls right now show that president obama has the majority of people on his side, but when it comes to some of the laws that he is hoping to get passed through congress, there's still a lot of opposition, including the reinstatement of the ban of assault weapons. so we do expect though president obama and the vice president to leave d.c., leave the white house and start to press for those measures. >> on a slightly lighter note, kristin, before today's news broke about the shooting, the president and first lady dropped in on a white house tour, i believe, and surprised some of the folks who volunteered for his campaign. >> that's right. they did. this is something they also did back in 2009, gives the first couple a chance to thank the folks who worked so hard in the field to get the president elected back in 2009 and then re-elected again last year. so that is what they did for a short while this afternoon. what was interesting, one big difference last year it was open to the press. this year the white house captured the event. when we asked the white house why they did it differently